· Private foundation
Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC | $50,000 |
| PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC | $50,000 |
| GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC | $50,000 |
| HUDSON REVIEW INC | $41,500 |
| DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS | $40,000 |
| THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC | $30,000 |
| BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC | $30,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| CROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC | $22,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC | $20,000 |
| NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC3× · 2019–2023 · $125k · revenue +69%- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Library2× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +53%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CPCircuit Playhouse on the Squareone grant, 2019 · $150k
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +105%
- PLPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATEone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
To commission and perform new music
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Archive Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON REVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds THEATRE MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Lafayette ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds POETS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENDO INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds IRIS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Artsmemphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Crescendo Inc — 99% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Roxy Theatre Group Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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